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Olen Steinhauer

Autor/a de The Tourist

19+ obres 4,934 Membres 236 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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Olen Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland on June 21, 1970. He received an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. After college, he spent a year in Romania on a Fulbright Grant. This experience helped provide the inspiration for his first five books. His works include The mostra'n més Bridge of Sighs, The Cairo Affair, All the Old Knives, and the Milo Weaver Series. In 2010, he received the Hammett Prize for best literary crime novel for The Nearest Exit. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Olen Steinhauer

The Tourist (2009) 1,351 exemplars
The Nearest Exit (2010) 675 exemplars
An American Spy (2012) 500 exemplars
The Cairo Affair (2014) 455 exemplars
All the Old Knives (2015) 418 exemplars
The Bridge of Sighs (2003) 387 exemplars
The Confession (2004) 220 exemplars
36 Yalta Boulevard (2005) 215 exemplars
The Middleman (2017) 203 exemplars
Liberation Movements (2006) 170 exemplars
Victory Square (2007) 132 exemplars
The Last Tourist (2020) 129 exemplars
On the Lisbon Disaster (2014) 39 exemplars
Vandals [short story] (2018) 13 exemplars
Berlin Station: Season One — Creator — 12 exemplars
You Know What's Going On (2011) 7 exemplars
Start-Up [short story] (2016) 6 exemplars
Cairo affair, The (2015) 1 exemplars

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Dublin Noir : The Celtic Tiger vs. The Ugly American (2003) — Autor — 91 exemplars
Agents of Treachery (2010) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars

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Olen Steinhauer writes yet another excellent story about secrets and how they affect ones lives.
Two agents (Henry and Celia) share a very troubled past but what are they ready to do in order to survive the aftermath of their actions?

Story revolves around a dinner between Henry and Celia. Henry an active agent stationed in Vienna and Celia, retired agent seeking comfort in normal civilian life. Henry aims to find out what exactly happened in Vienna (where they were both stationed) six years back and what was the cause of bloody failure at the airport - event that marked them both in so many ways. To achieve his goal he arranges for friendly dinner with Celia and during the conversation at the table reader is presented with the plenty of skeletons-from-the-closet from both parties.

Excellent novel, highly recommended to all fans of spy-fiction and thrillers in general.

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Zare | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Jan 23, 2024 |
I have to admit that from now I need to rely more on my own hunch than back-cover blurbs and some of the more general reviews when deciding whether or not to buy the book.

After reading these short descriptions I expected a story that is about these days ever-so-popular chair-revolution(aries) and the way their actions are thwarted by ever-vigilant law enforcement. Author so far did not follow this type of formulaic story-lines but he would not be first nor last if that happened.

It was completely different I am glad to say. What starts as a rather weird revolution in the heart of USA makes up only the first half of the story. Second half details out the revolution's background and brings into the picture most unexpected person ever - Milo Weaver, The Tourist - playing one of the central roles. Even at the end we are not given the complete answers so I hope future author's books will shed some more light. I wont go into much details here in order not to spoil the story but will just say that not everything is as it seems and final scheme of things is left shrouded in fog after the final page.

Author shows all of the "enraged" society levels - from wealthy lip-service-only class, charismatic people dreaming about changing the world but incapable of figuring out when they are being played and unaware that their rhetoric can trigger the worst in people, masses who are actually affected but very easily manipulated by demagogues and in general totally unaware of what is actually going on and get freely used as cannon-fodder by all sides in this revolution, to protectors of the social order that are willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve their goals in the name of the national emergency.

Main character, Rachel, was a little bit annoying kind of protagonist but through her we can see how difficult is to move from obedient public servant to person aware that same service she served is now ready to shut her down for good. Her constant doubt that something is rotten in the law enforcement shows very well how systematic treatment of all people that report conspiracy like events as loonies can seriously impede ones way of thinking.

Excellent thriller, looking forward to future works by this author.
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Zare | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Jan 23, 2024 |

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